Apr 12, 2023 04:38 PM
(This post was last modified: Apr 12, 2023 05:57 PM by C C.)
Partisan science is bad for science and society
https://heterodoxacademy.org/blog/partis...d-society/
INTRO: It has become common in the last decade for top scientific journals and scientific institutions to become involved in political advocacy. Matt Burgess and Roger Pielke Jr. explain that when science becomes partisan, public trust in science decreases. Scientific institutions would improve their scholarship and public trust by rejecting reflexive partisanship... (MORE - details)
Astrobiology: The rise and fall of a nascent science
https://www.scivillage.com/thread-13954-...l#pid57563
EXCERPT: . . . there are books and whole journals devoted to astrobiology, and new undergraduate and graduate programs in astrobiology are cropping up at institutions around the world.
So why on Earth, or, rather, why in the Milky Way would I cast any aspersions on this emerging field of science? The problem is that it is an emerging field, and that implies three important things: (1) the development and use of rigorous scientific standards characteristic of more mature fields has not yet been universally established; (2) unfounded claims are too often made, and they gain support in the popular press; and (3) small groups of ideologically driven researchers can have, and have had, an inordinately lar (ge impact, hindering progress and potentially pushing the field backwards... (MORE)
https://heterodoxacademy.org/blog/partis...d-society/
INTRO: It has become common in the last decade for top scientific journals and scientific institutions to become involved in political advocacy. Matt Burgess and Roger Pielke Jr. explain that when science becomes partisan, public trust in science decreases. Scientific institutions would improve their scholarship and public trust by rejecting reflexive partisanship... (MORE - details)
Astrobiology: The rise and fall of a nascent science
https://www.scivillage.com/thread-13954-...l#pid57563
EXCERPT: . . . there are books and whole journals devoted to astrobiology, and new undergraduate and graduate programs in astrobiology are cropping up at institutions around the world.
So why on Earth, or, rather, why in the Milky Way would I cast any aspersions on this emerging field of science? The problem is that it is an emerging field, and that implies three important things: (1) the development and use of rigorous scientific standards characteristic of more mature fields has not yet been universally established; (2) unfounded claims are too often made, and they gain support in the popular press; and (3) small groups of ideologically driven researchers can have, and have had, an inordinately lar (ge impact, hindering progress and potentially pushing the field backwards... (MORE)